President Donald Trump's approval rating increased by double-digits within the past two weeks, according to the conservative-leaning Rasmussen Reports index history.

Trump's approval index broke even at zero on Monday (May 12) after dropping to as low as -11 on April 25. The approval index did drop to -3 on Tuesday (May 13), however, Trump's total approval increased to 52%, which was his highest rating since March.

The Rasmussen poll does, however, vary from several other national polls. Trump is reported to have a 42% approval rating in the latest YouGov/Economist poll and ended the month of April with a 44% approval rating, according to Ballotpedia, which averaged daily national approval/opinion ratings.

Last week, the Decision Desk HQ reported that Trump's approval rating was trending upward, despite still being in the negative. The president's approval rating was reported to be at 44.5% compared to a 51.2 disapproval rating (-6.7%) and his personal favorability rating is reported to be at 44.4% compared to a 51.7% unfavorable rating, however, both categories saw a respective 2.7% and 2.9% increase during a seven-day change.

Last Tuesday (May 6), polling expert G. Elliott Morris stated in his Strength In Numbers blog that Trump's approval rating had seen a "complete inversion." Morris compared Trump's current YouGov polling numbers to the website's first poll conducted during his second of two non-consecutive terms in January.

The president is reported to have seen a 33% decline in net approval rating among people who consume the least news during the past three months, dropping from +12 to -21, as well as a 14-point decrease from +3 to -11 among people who say they pay attention to the news "most of the time."

"If YouGov is right, the people who pay the least attention to the news and are the least involved in the political process are now the least likely to support Trump, rather than the most likely," Morris wrote. "That is a complete inversion of the relationship between engagement and support for Trump in 2024, and a return to the old dynamic of less-informed/engaged voters being systematically more friendly to Democratic candidates and causes.

"But I’m not sure this is a political shift, so much as it is the result of a mass of voters conditioning their support for the president on economic conditions, especially recent local economic indicators (especially inflation), regardless of which party is in charge."

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